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Hedge fund hearts security

Guess MMI likes the security industry.
MMI is one of the activist hedge funds thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s been pestering The BrinkÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Company to sell one of its divisions for months. Now itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s acquired Ã¢â‚¬Å“a small stake in Protection OneÃ¢â‚¬Â according to this story from Barron's. (Check out the last line in the Ã¢â‚¬Å“Activist SpotlightÃ¢â‚¬Â section.)
Used to be that P1 was almost like a privately held company with Quadrangle owning almost all of its shares. ThatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s changed since the merger with IASG: Quadrangle is still the largest stockholder, but its share is now about 23 percent according to Yahoo Finance.
According to its most recent SEC filing on holdings, MMI (which is part of MCM Capital Management) owns about 80,000 shares of P1. ThatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s only about .32 percent of shares outstanding, but it still earns MCM a spot (#10) on the Yahoo Finance list of P1Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s top ten Ã¢â‚¬Å“Institutional Holders.Ã¢â‚¬Â

As managing editor, Tess helps oversee editorial content and works on developing a rapport with industry leaders to report and write on industry news, concentrating on the fire and residential beats. She focuses on writing stories important to installers, integrators, manufacturers and distributors. Before joining Security Systems News in September 2010, Tess was a newspaper reporter in Maine for more than two decades. Most of that time, she worked for The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, and also was an occasional stringer for The New York Times. Tess has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s in linguistics from the University of Michigan. She lives in Maine with her husband and a demanding cat.